La Toussaint

Toussaint, or All Saints' Day, is an important Catholic holiday, particularly in France. Below the video you'll find our bilingual reader - click any French phrase for the translation and links to related grammar lessons.

Translation Notes

1. When referring to aspects of the holiday that apply only to France, I kept the term in French.

2. Some of the tenses don't match. In French, we use the present tense to describe historical stories like this to evoke a sense of immediacy, whereas in English, we commonly use the past tense - learn more about historical French tenses.

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DrewC1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Qu'est-ce que c'est "le ciel blue?"

"Le seul qui a les yeux le ciel bleue qui n'y a pas dehors." What does this phrase mean?

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TomC1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

Hi Drew,

This is my take on it. the actual sentence is:

"La seule qui a dans les yeux le ciel bleu qu'il ny a pas dehors". "La seule" is referring back to "l'émission" in the previous sentence. The sentence can be translated figuratively as :

The only one (émission) that has blue skies in its eyes when it's cloudy outside. "qu'il ny a pas dehors"i.e but there is no (blue sky) outside.

Quite a tricky sentence!

Hope this helps,

Tom

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Qu'est-ce que c'est "le ciel blue?"

"Le seul qui a les yeux le ciel bleue qui n'y a pas dehors." What does this phrase mean?

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